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PAPER COLLAR.

No. 61,100. Patented Jan. 8, 1867.

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GEORGE W. BAY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO RAY 8a TAYLOR, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 61,100, dated January 8, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER coLLens.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W, RAY, of Springfield, Hampdcn county, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new Process in the Treatment of Paper for articles of wearing apparel; and I do hereby declare the following to-be a'full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a collar with my invention applied; and

.- Figure 2 is a transverse section.

. The purpose, and object of my invention is to more closely imitate the linen or woven fabric from which collars, cuil's, &c., are manufactured, and consist in preparing and adapting either paper, or enamelled paper, as hereinafter described, to the manufacture of such articles. Heretclore the collars, cuffs, 850., in commerce, which have been made of paper, have a smooth and plain surface, very unlike the fabric they are made to take the place of, and cannot be much improved, even by color printing, as the surface of the paper isv'plaiii and smooth, whereas the calico or cloth collars, which are printed, plainly show the threads of which the fabric is made, even where it is printed. By my invention, I am enabled to imitate the fibre and figure of textile or woven fabrics and laces; and, when applied to the surface of enamelled paper, the woven fabric is imitated, in articles. manufactured from the euamellcd paper so prepared, to a much greater degree of perfection than can be done by any other process; and they have all the appearance of having'bcen manufactured from a textile or woven fabric, and prepared for use and wear in a laundry.

To enable others skilled in the art to make anduse my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and application to use. I

I take a suitable paper which is sufficiently strong and pure, and it may be either backed up by, or may have incorporated in it, a thin textile or woven fabric, to give it additional strength, or not, and it may. also be enamelled by any of the common or usual processes, with any common enamel, or by a preparatiouof colodion; and I place upon its surface a suitable woven fabric which I wish to imitate, or place them so that the surface of the paper shall be in contact with the woven fabric; and I then apply a heavy pressure, suflicie'nt to drive the threads of the woven fabric into the surface of the paper, or enamelled paper, sufficiently deep to leave a good impression of the woven fabric upon the paper. This may be done either by a continuous linear or see-- tional pressure, by rolls, or by a vertical surface pressure. When done by rolls, one, two, or more rolls may be used, and one or more of them may be covered with the woven fabric which it is wished to imitate, by first covering the roll with a thin coating of shellac varnish, or any other suiliciently adhesive substance, and then covering it with the woven fabric. A plate may be usedto lay the paper and cloth on, to pass them between the rolls, and the plate may be also covered with the woven fabric, which will greatly assist in the manipulation of the paper. It is not absolutely necessary, however, that the woven fabric should be fastened to either the roll or plate, to get an impression, as merely laying the paper and cloth together, and passing them between the rolls, will produce the desired result. 'I prefer, however, that one or .both should be covered, as the difiiculties of manipulation are very much diminished if the woven fabric is confined by means of some adhesive substance, as the cloth is made much more solid and rigid, and better impressions can be made, and the woven fabric will wear much longer than if it is left loose and unconfined. When rolls are used, a continuous strip of cloth may be used, if desired, by having a large roll of it upon one side of the rolls, and unwinding it and passing it between the rolls; and it might be wound up on the other side of the rolls, as fast as unwound from the first one. The paper might be passed between the rolls, in contact with the cloth, either above or below it. Instead of this, an auxiliary roll might be used, and a. strip of cloth, (either backed up by paper or other substance, to make it strong, or not,) passed between the rolls, and over the auxiliary roll, and the two ends of the strip of cloth sewed or fastened together in any suitable manner, in the form of ahelt, or endless apron, and the paper may then be passed between the rolls in contact with it. In using vertical surface pressure, any sufficiently powerfulnnd strong press might be used, as it is only necessary to get pressure enough, and that the plate or surface upon which the paper and cloth are laid, and also the plate or surface aboveit, should be smooth, that the threads of the fabric may everywhere meet the some resistance, and be forced into the surface of the paper equally at every point. I regard these different methods as modificntions of the some process, as the great object aimed at isto have the paper and woven. fabric come in contact under a uniform pressure, which shall drive the cloth into the surface of the paper slifliciently' to leave'a good impression of the cloth upon the surface of the paper or enamelled paper. I--prefer,tha.t, in using my invention, it should be used upon a. snrfaee either more or less ennmelled, as the finish} gloss; or storehed surfaeeof a. woven fnbriev when prepared by an the appliances of e' laundry for use, ie/mueh better imitated, and emueli better impression is produced upon an enamelled s urfnee then upon a. plain paper surface. In using my invention, 1 purpose to use any suitable .woven fabric, suehns .niarseilles, linen, 00t0n,'an l"t;he various figured laces such as are sed for lndieseolla 's; and the articles manufactured may be flirthe'r ornamented by color printing, or By suitable perforations or indentations to imitate lace orwrought fabric, I nmnwai'e that eleetrotyped and other cliesheve been used to imitate a woven fabric upon-the sui'faee ofpaper, also that engraved rolls and-dies have been used for the same inn-pose; but

there is a large expense always attending the pi e curing of metallic dies and rolls, as well as much vexetious and necessary delay, lensing/my invention, however, it is only necessary to purchase qt any store any desired fzibrie, end in a. very few minutes adjust itto theioll or plate, thus doing away with the expense and delay of all metallic dies and engraved rolls, and also saying a great amount of labor; and if desirable to change from one kind of fabric to another, it can be done at any time, and with little or no expense or delay.

, Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Paper; whether plain or enamelled, embossed either before oi after its conversion into articles .of wearing apparel, by means of a woven fabric applied ,under' pressure, substantially as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

' GEO. W. RAY.

- Witnesses l V. N. TAYLOR,

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